Whiffletree-hook



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DENNIS S. BLUE, QB FREMONT, OHIO.

WHIFFLETREE-HOOK.

SBEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,777, dated February 6, 18 83. Applicationfiled November 9,1ss2. (Model) I 0 all whom t'tmay'concern Be it known that I, DENNIS S. BLUE, .1 citizen of the United States, residin g at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Whiffletree-Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ot' referent e marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my invention, and Fig. 2 a similar view of the same attached to a whiffietree.

- This invention relates tocertain new and useful improvements in whiffletrce-hooks, and the objects thereof are to produce such a device thatmay be readily manufactured and .invention, with its several parts cast in one piece, and is provided with a screw-threaded or pointed shank, a, for the purpose of connecting it to the 'whiffletree B, its outer end, b, towwhich the trace is hooked, being flattened and turned backward. A branch or guard, 0, starting from a shoulder, d, which comes flush against the end of the whififletree, extends upwardly and outwardly a sufficient distance to admit of the end of the trace 0 having free play, and then makes a n-shaped bend and terminates below the hooked end I), at a distance somewhat greater than the width of the trace.

In connecting the trace to the whiffletreehookitsendis broughtupon theinnerside ofthe free; end of the branch or guard and passed onto the backwardly-curved hook, as shown in Fig: 2. By the-employment of this branch or guard in the manner shown the trace, when coupled with the hook, cannot become discon-.

nected by any sudden jerks, slacking, or other causes, as the said branch or guard serves to always hold it in proper position thereon, and by having the entire device cast in one piece nary hook.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claimras new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- itcan. be as readily manufactured as the ordi- The whiifletree-hook A, having a screw-- threaded or pointed shank, a, shoulder 07, and

back wardly-hooked end b, cast with the branch or guard 0, of the form shown and described, for the purpose set forth. In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

' DENNIS S. BLUE.

Witnesses:

FRANK OFARRELL, 'MORRIS E. TYLER. 

